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This site focuses specifically on how to use IPhoto as a classroom tool. This source seems to use a combination of cognitive and behavioral activities. I believe this site uses a more learner centered approach. It gives visuals as well as reading to help the learner to understand concepts. I believe they are meeting a goal of the learner centered approach, aiding in human cognition (Mayor, 2009).

This site created by Meyers is a very interactive site for learning about how Garage Band can be used in the classroom. This site provides a great amount of hands on examples to show how this program is a useful tool in the classroom. Mayer lets us know that a major focus of the technology centered approach is "using multimedia technology as aid to human cognition (2009, 13)." I believe that this site does that with all the examples and tutorials provided. Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

This site was used as a guide to help educators learn about how ILife can be useful in the classroom. The way information is presented requires more cognitive activity than behavioral. The site seems to be more technology centered, because it focuses more on the technology itself. As Mayer (2009) suggests the this approach focuses more on the capabilities of the technology.

This is a good website that provides a detailed description of the scientific method before the participant can test their knowledge with worksheets and with scientific puzzles and word search.

I like this graphic organizer website because it is loaded with a collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves in different format: html, PDF and Word.

A GREAT website that provides several links to graphic organizers to help your children classify ideas and communicate more effectively, structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.

This is a great website that contains thousands of free presentations from A-Z in Power Point format and free interactive games. You can get very creative with the resources at this site.

I like this site because it provides step-by-step directions on creating your own Power Point Jeopardy Game including text and visual graphics. The pictures really enhances this site.

Website that is a good because it provides definition and descriptions of various authentic assessment tools and additional resource links.

A great website that contains example of authentic tasks and rubrics. I like the variety of rubrics shared at this website.

Storybird is another presentation tool that will be used as a means of sharing information throughou the workshop. Storybird will be one of the options for teachers to use in creating their final product. Storybird is a free online tool used to create and promote digital storytelling. The website is very user-friendly with strict parameters which is wonderful for K12 education. The website and its creators pride themselves on being "family-friendly". With this in mind teachers can also feel at ease sharing this tool with their students.

Rubistar can be used to create rubrics for presentations and other creative products. Rubistar is also a free user-friendly tool containing pre-generated rubrics for a variety of subjects and products as well as the option of creating your own. Rubrics can be downloaded or exported into Microsoft Excel.

What it does: Capture your keystrokes, mouse movement, and screens to teach someone how to do a procedure. You can add voice to explain it. Why this one? It is free and very easy to use. Learning curve is quick. I have used it for my company many times. Learning benefit? For essential learning, learners can see exactly what they are supposed to do. When they trial and error it on their own, if they make a mistake, they can easily go back and watch the video again to discover their possible mis-path

Online quiz making tool. Well-suited to assessing essential learning. Explanation of choice: Free and, unlike others I found, was selected for ISTEs 101 Best web sites 2005-2006.

This site allows users to create online quizzes and organize results. This site is effective, because it allows the user to create questions that have multimedia files attached instead of just basic questions with no graphics or videos. Students can also review quizzes and see what the correct answers were if they missed any questions. The site also guides the user through any possible dilemmas by providing a page of FAQ's and a link to contact the QuizStar support team.

Quizstar is an online assessment tool. Instructors can create quizzes online for their students to take. Quizzes can be made in many languages. Quizstar allows multimedia attachment to quizzes.

* Name of the site: University of Wisconsin-Stout Authentic Assessment * URL: http://www3.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.cfm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is an index of sites to help teachers understand and develop authentic assessment, including ways to grade, the need for rubrics, and several articles to make the argument for assessments that are real-world based. The site is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). There are so many resources here. I need to continue to explore the links.

Online Professional Development Authentic Assessment Includes rubrics for cooperative learning, research reports, eportfolios, PowerPoint/oral presentations, Includes links to many free online testing tools. This can be used for essential learning. I like this website because it offer authentic assessments for powerpoint presentations which I am using in my multimedia workshop. http://www3.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.cfm

This website provides resources for authentic assessments. Resources include rubrics, performance assessments, and tools to generate your own assessments

A great tool to show video demonstrations before professional development. In this video students in London do an interactive activity with students in China using the IWB with audio and video features. The students basically demonstrate the interactive capabilities of the IWB.